| Title: | The 2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Grade 4 Oral Reading Fluency Study Public-Use Data File |
| Description: | The 2018 NAEP Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) study was conducted by NCES to examine public-school fourth-grade students’ ability to read passages out loud with sufficient speed, accuracy, and expression, as well as foundational skills, to gauge underlying sources of poor fluency. The public-use data file contains oral reading performance variables, student contextual information, NAEP reading scores and achievement-level and below NAEP Basic subgroup variables, and student sample weights and replicate weights. The data companion provides background on the 2018 NAEP Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) study and a description of oral reading fluency and the study design. It also describes the 2018 NAEP ORF study instrument development and provides the sampling design and response rates, variables included in the data file, information needed to conduct statistical analyses using the 2018 NAEP ORF data, and control statement files to create system files in SAS and Stata. |
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| Cover Date: | October 2022 |
| Web Release: | October 12, 2022 |
| Publication #: | NCES 2022084 |
| Center/Program: | NCES |
| Authors: | NCES |
| Type of Product: | Data File |
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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) |
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For questions about the content of this Data File, please contact: Jing Chen. |